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Old 31-01-10, 16:43
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Originally Posted by andy153 View Post
If I remember correctly Alex - not quite right - yes he left developing and printing to a team, but he would look at the finished prints and only Sign them if he was happy with the result. All the misses he had destroyed. Not quite the same as looking at a set of contact prints.
Cartier-Bresson's obituary in the Telegraph tells us this:

'Cartier-Bresson rigidly applied three rules to his work. He never contrived a photograph, used no artificial light and never retouched the results'.

The print he selected wouldn't have been manipulated anyway.
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